20 August 2009 Comments

Naijaborn.com: Innovatively and passionately taking territories

Naijaborn.com a Nigerian social platform with the aim of showcasing Nigerians and their creations. The beta platform launched some couple of months ago has continued taking  giant steps. Recently it launched “Status Update” a feature common on social networking sites that enables user to share what they are doing with their network of friends; also [...]

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20 August 2009 Comments

Using Facebook & Twitter for Marketing: The Nigerian Experience

As notified on our recent post here about the above event, it has come and gone. I was thrilled and happy to see as many as around 700 people gathered under one roof to learn how to use Facebook and Twitter for Business. The event was put together by SEC (Successful Entrepreneurs Club an offshoot [...]

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18 August 2009 Comments

Militant Attack on Facebook & Twitter: Using Social Media to promote your business

I have written couple of times on how to use Social media to brand yourself and promote your business. A barcamp event was held in Nigeria to bring people in the Websphere together to think on web 2.0, the challenges and the benefits.  Also just this may, Internet Marketers Association of Nigeria (IMAN) held the [...]

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14 August 2009 Comments

Facebook Acquires FriendFeed: What does this mean for Social Media?

10th of August 2009 Facebook made acquisition of FriendFeed official, making it expand its influence in the social networking sphere. FriendFeed: “FriendFeed aims to be a one stop shop for all your social networking updates and news items. The four founders were all team members at Google and helped to launch such products as Google [...]

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08 August 2009 Comments

Facebook Users in Nigeria and Africa

Our last blog on Facebook users in Nigeria was June 12th 2009. A new review has been done with a staggering increase in less than 2 months. Facebook Nigerian users was 489,500, it has increased by 25% to stand at 657,360. It is quite apparent how rapid Facebook is growing in Nigeria. A break down [...]

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08 August 2009 Comments

LightUpNigeria: Online Advocacy for Improved Electricity supply in Nigeria

It is no news anymore that the historic victory of President Barack Obama is largely influenced or made possible by the application of social media and web 2.0. I must say that it revolutionized both the business and the political world! Many social media practitioners wrote about it and some even wrote books on the [...]

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03 August 2009 Comments

Most Visited Nigerian Sites for August: Punchng.com continues it downward trend

Site Ranking Nigeria Ranking Overall Moves Nigeria Move nairaland.com 12 1 2 – vanguardngr.com 17 2 10 4 naijahotjobs.com 18 3 4 0 ngrguardiannews.com 21 4 2 0 sunnewsonline.com 27 5 -9 -3 thisdayonline.com 28 6 -3 -1 nigeriagalleria.com 34 7 10 2 mtnonline.com 39 8 8 2 nigerianbestforum.com 49 9 -10 -1 tribune.com.ng 49 [...]

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01 August 2009 Comments

Nigeria Cut-off from the internet

For the past one week, Internet connection in Nigeria has been a nightmare owing to the problem on the SAT-3 cable that links Nigeria to the world. The downtime is said to have grounded the activities of cyber cafes and other institutions including banks. Bank were said to be struggling with  alternatives that are not [...]

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23 July 2009 Comments

Understanding Facebook Ads: How to get the best out of Facebook ads!

Contents Current Nigerian Stats on Facebook How it works Getting started Keys to measure Looking back: how far has it worked? I have been taking a close look at how Facebook ads is becoming popular in Nigeria and how much people are willing to spend to place ads on Facebook. As a strategist in the [...]

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21 July 2009 Comments

Greenlagos.com: A Social Network with Social Impact

Since 2006 we have experienced what is generally called “Social Network Proliferation”. From HI5 to Friendster to Myspace enter Facebook then Linkedin and Twitter. Looking at all these SNS, they offer good services and have transformed the way we communicate on the internet. Thanks to Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin for a new perspective to social [...]

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